From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Device 0 is not a termcap terminal device Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:14:32 -0400 Message-ID: <87zlll1wrb.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <20081003100758.GA1762@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223050522 14865 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2008 16:15:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: csant , emacs-devel To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 03 18:16:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KlnJn-0004Nq-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:15:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55793 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KlnIj-0003Fo-OE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KlnHL-0001m0-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KlnHJ-0001lC-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33228 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KlnHJ-0001l7-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:33523) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KlnHJ-00005S-D3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 346AE57E08D; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:14:32 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20081003100758.GA1762@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:07:58 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104328 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > No suggestions, but a "me too". I've just updated and rebuilt Emacs-23, > and with this command: > > $ ~/emacs/emacs/src/emacs -batch -l 000tests.el -f do-all-tests > > (i.e., run the CC Mode test suite), I get the same error message, > namely: > > Device 0 is not a termcap terminal device > > . This is distressing. It also suggests the error is nothing to do with > --daemon, but perhaps more to do with ttys. The error happens both on a > Linux tty and an X-Windows term. Could you find out when the problem first showed up?